RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116030136026775832

This is one of the worst takes from LLM enthusiasts.

Compilers are deterministic, extremely well tested, made out of incredibly detailed specifications debated for months and properly formalized.

LLMs are random content generators with a whole lot of automatically trained heuristics. They can produce literally anything. Not a single person who built them can predict what the output will be for a given input.

Comparing both is a display of ignorance and dishonesty.

Curl-Salemme, like a lot of women in the #pwhl, grew up playing on boys hockey teams. I don’t think that experience would necessarily be welcoming or easy but without that inclusion she wouldn’t be where she is today. But I guess if she’s worried that men are going to steal trophies from hard working female athletes…she’s really convinced that Women are inferior. That’s sad. Sad for her, sad for the sport and just fucking sad. Saddest of all that she’s selling short herself and all the athletes she thinks she’s championing.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7005946/2026/01/29/britta-curl-salemme-fierce-athlete-transgender-women/?source=athletic_user_shared_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta

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Your occasional reminders:

1. Do you have backups, do they work, have you tested them with a restore?

2. Is your body being weird? chase that up if you haven't.

3. Remove the batteries from your old stored devices. They all leak except the ones that don't and you won't know which until they do.

4. Check your Quad-G5 liquid cooling systems in storage for leaks.